1. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
   "After drinking too much, the students threw up";
   - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], honk [Brit, informal], regurgitate, chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], vom [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up

Derived forms: threw up, thrown up, throws up, throwing up

Type of: egest, eliminate, excrete, pass

Encyclopedia: Throw up